Freeland Inbune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIIDNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAI* STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. SriJsCIUfTIoN RATES: One Year 61.50 bl* Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Mouths 23 Tho hate which the subscription is paid to Is on tne address label of euch paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Ke*p tho figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper Is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued- Male all men y orders, checks, etc.,payable to Ihr Tribune Printinj Company, Limited. Tho extension of American ship ping is of the first importance to the South, says the Atlanta Constitution, because our section is pre-eminently tho field from which the raw material has to be furnished. Not ouly is our staple crop of cotton the mo9t valuablo article of export which the country has, but our resources of coal, iron and timber, so necessary to shipping, are inexhaustible. The rapid growth ©f ship-building, therefore, makes a market for these raw materials, as well as opening the way for an Amer ican commercial conquest of tin world. The Duke d'Abruzzi started upon his jouruey of arctic exploration with a commendable tone of modesty. He declared that he had made none of the boastful predictions attributed to him, aud ho bids au revoir to civilization with the sensible remark that the time to talk about discoveries is after they have been made. Would that some other seekers after the North Polo were as conservative iu their state ments! This nephew of a king has chosen a frozen path to a glory that he may approach no more nearly than auy who have essayed the same ven ture. But the warm wishes of the scientific world for his success will follow his cold voyage in tho dark North. When the billboard question was taken up by the City Council commit tee it was brought out that one of the billboard companies is paying out be tween $200,000 aud 8300,000 a year to the owners of vacant lots, and that iu many instances the price of tho lease almost pays the taxes on property whicti otherwise would not bring in a penny's revenue, states the Chicago Tribune. As an illustration, one ad vertising company is said to pay S2OOO a year for the privilege of erecting billboards on the vacant lot at Con gress street and Wabash avenue, and finds money in it even at that rental. The money paid out for tho use of brick walls and for the right to erect sign boards on the top of buildings runs up into the tens of thou muds of dollars in Chicago alone. Mussnge or the Heart. A most remarkable case is com municated by M. Tufiler to the Sur gical Society of Paris. It appears that a young man of tweutv-four years had been operated upon for suppra tive inflammation of the appendix, and tho operation at once relieved the condition; on the sixth day, however, the patient was seized, during the physician's visit, with an attack of cardiac syncope, accompanied by total arrest of tho circulation. The ordi nary measures completely failing to restore respiration, M. Tuffier made an incision in the third intercostal space, aud, coming to the heart, took hold of the left ventricle with the thumb and index ringer, and sub jected it to rhythmical compressions. After a few moments circulation reap peared, and the patient breathed for two or three minutes, and, the pulse again becoming imperceptible, a re petition was resorted to with tho same result. On a third occasion, however, M. Tuffier was unsuccessful, and the patient succumbed. An autopsy discovered a clot in the pulmonary artery. CrrrrcotiMi Himself. In his earnestness the great populist >rator forgot himself. "Let us not wash our party linen in public!" he cried passionately. Instantly his au dience was upon its feet, crying out angrily. "I should say," faltered the orator, now, clearly much chagrined, "let us not sponge our party celluloid in public." Hereupon there was much applause, followed by singing by the glee club.—Detroit Journal. The Main Thing to I.carn. "To make u success at this busi ness," said the experienced traveling salesman, "there is one particular fea ture at which you should strive to be come an expert." "And what is that?" anxiously asked the young drummer. "It is to he able to explain satisfac torily to the firm when you come in off of a bad trip Just why you haven't ■gold more goods."—Ohio Journal. Major Marchand was the son of a widow, and as such exempt from mili tary duty. Hi/ mother was at first opposed to the army, and started him la life as a lawyer's clerk. I LOVE'S CEOGRAPHY. My kingdom is my sweetheart's face, ' And these the boundaries I trace: Northward—a forehead fair: I Beyond—a wilderness of golden hair; A pretty cheek to east and west, Her little mouth the sunny south- It is the south that I love let — Her eyes two sparkling lakes, Held by the siars at night—the sun by day; The dimples in her cheek and chin Are snnres which Love has set, And I have fallen in. —C. M. .Seymour, in the Criterion. MR. PHINEAS MARVEIi A Boarding House Romance, fV S lior husband g/M had died and S left her unpro vided for Mrs. tj [• Hyde kept / —1 hoarders. Mrs. V£7\ f&iH 1 Hv,le was ft i/Sr*) <1 little, dried-up JlM 1 widow, with u Ji (j constitutional V lUffl\Sj i\> toothache and MO* \Sj a mild ' meek ' way of taking the world as it came to her. For fifty yeai-3 she had battled against misfortune until the warfare had become second nature to her. "But there's oue blessing that I have to be thankful for," she would eny. "Mr. Marvell has kept true to me through it all as the needle to the pole." From this it need not be inferred that Mr. Marvell was a lover of the little widow. Far from it. He was only her best boarder—the boarder who for half a score of years had oc cupied her "first floor front," and paid his bills as regularly as the {Saturday night came around. He was a bachelor, as may be sup posed—a man who was as full of whims and caprices as an egg is of meat, yet who carried a kindly heart in his bosom beneath it all. But ou this especial Friday morn ing his eyes blGzed wrathfully—the tip of his nose hung forth a crimson flag of indiguatiou, us Mrs. Hyde came meekly into his presence. "A mouth's warning, ma'am," was all that he said. Mrs. Hyde caught at the nearest chair for support. "Mr. Marvell I" she gasped. "Now, ma'am, it isn't at all worth while to go through auy sceues," said the bachelor, callously. "I am a practical man, as you ought to know by this time. Aud I'm not in the habit of wastiug words. Put up a bill. Ad vertise. Let your room as soon as you can, for I move out to-morrow, although, as a token of respect for your mauy good qualities, I shall pay my bills up to the first of June." "La, Mr. Marvell!" faintly ejacu lated the widow. "How cau I possi bly have offended youV" "Ask your owu conscience, ma'am!" sternly retorted Mr. Marvell. "Because if it's ou account of Patty aud her babies " "It is precisely on that account, ma'am. I was awakened last night by the screaming of a child." "It's cutting eye-teeth, poor dear," interposed Mrs. Hyde. "And this morning, on making in quiries," relentlessly went ou the bachelor, "I learned that you had ac tually taken in your widowed niece and her twin babies? Twins, ma'am! Oue would have been enough—too much, iu fact—hut when it comes to twins " "Patty had nowhere else to go, sir," said Mrs. Hyue, apologetically, ! "and she'll be useful about the house. Patty's a good girl, sir." "I dare say," said Mr. Marvell. "But I can't stay iu tho same house with twins —so, as 1 before remarked, \ V'lt up a bill as soon as you please." "Please, sir, I'll put Patty and the thildren on the top lloor, where they can't possibly disturb you, if " "I tell you once for all, ma'am, that. I cannot tolerate children, and [won't! Will you be kind enough to leave me now?" So Mrs. Hyde werit downstairs to burst into tears, back of the pantry i door, where Patty Smith, with one ! twin tied in the high chair and the ' other swarming over the floor, like a ; magnified beetle, was beating eggs for the dinner custard. "Aunty, what's the matter?" de manded Patty, still whisking vigor ously away at the custard. "He's going, my dear." "Who? Mr. Marvell?" "Yes." "Well, let him go, aunty," said Patty, cheerfully. She was a dim pled, pretty little lady, with pleasant, black eyes and black hair, parted low on her forehead, not quite twenty, iu spite of her widowhood aud her twins! "It's a cheerful room—you'll soon fill up the vacancy." "But not with such a man as Phtn eas Marvell," groaned Mrs. Hyde. "Ob, Patty, you don't know him!" "I know he must be a crusty old piece, aunty, or he never would ob ject to the dear, darling little babies." said Patty, with a loving glance at the twins. "Don't fret, now, there's a dear. It'll all coino right, see if it don't. I'll writo an advertisement myself, and take it down to the news paper office this afternoon." So Mr. Marvell packed up his goods and left, and Mrs. Hyde cried. "It seems such a pity," said she, "*fter ten years." "Don't mind it, aunty," said the courageous Patty. ••I'm sure he must be a selfish creature, or he never would servo you so." Hardly a month had elapsed when a sour-visaged woman came to the Hyde bouse and requested an audience with the mistress thereof. "You know Mr. Marvell, I sup pose," said she. "I know Mr. Phineas Marvell," answered Mrs. Hyde, with dignity. "Well, it's all the same," retorted she of the acidulated countenance. "He's boarded at our house three weeks aud four days. He's down with the small-pox." "Oh, my!" ejaculated Mrs. Hyde. "Poor, dear soul. Aud who takes care of hiinV" "That's just the very question," i said the visitor. "I can't. I've got my own family, as never has had the small-pox, to think of—and the other boarders has all cleared out, aud the doctor don't know of no one as would be willing to undertake tho risk. P'raps you could come?" Mrs. Hyde visibly recoiled. "N—uo!" she answered. "I would ! rather not. As you say yourself, it's j a great risk to run, and " But Patty Smith, who had listened in silence heretofore, stepped for ward. "I'll go, aunty," said she, "if you'll take care of the twins. I have had the small-pox. lam not afraid of it." "But, Patty, I thought you dis liked Mr. Marvell so much?" "I did," said Patty, with a smile and a shrug of her shoulders. "But it isn't worth wtile to think of that now. He is sick, and solitary, and he is a fellow creature. That is enough." And Patty packed her little bundle, kissed the peachy, unconscious i cheeks of the twins, and went on her ! mission, like a new variety of Soeur de Charite. What a disconsolate scone was that! . in the midst of which lay Mr. Marvell, tossing on a bed of sickness. A fire- j less grate; undraped windows, through j which the sun beat with merciless ' brilliancy; dust iu every spot on I which dust could possibly alight, aud \ pillow aud bed linen a week old. "I'll soon set all these matters i straight," said Patty, moving around with the quick decision that was nat ural to her. Aud within half an hour the sccue had assumed a more home like look, even to the staring, unoon- j scious eyes of the delirious man. "Who are you? An augel?" he asked, lowering his voice to a whisper. ! "No," she answered, smiling iu . spite of herself. "I'm Patty." "Don't leave me," ho urged. "It's so dreadful to be left alone." "No," she answered; "I won't." Phineas Marvell lay ill for a month —and with slow recovery came a sense i of all that Patty Smith had doue for him. "I'll tell you what," said the doc- 1 tor, on the day that he made his last ! professional visit, "if it hadn't been for Mrs. Smith, you would have been snugly stowed away between four j mahogany boards by this tune, my friend." "I know it," Air. Marvell answered. ! "Well," said Mrs. Hyde, when at last Patty returned home aud hugged the twins within ail inch of their lives, "I hope the poor, dear gentle man is better." "Oh, lie's all right now!" said ! Patty. "He's coming back to-mor- | row or the next day. Is the room all ready?" "All ready," Mrs. Ilyde answered. Mr. Marvell returned the next day i and ouce more took possession of his j old quarters. "Mrs. Hyde," said he, with a little | embarrassment, when that lady came 1 upstairs to inquire his wishes iu re- j gard to auy early tea, "there's some thing I, perhaps, ought to mention to you." "Indeed, sir!" said the wondering Mrs. Hyde. "What is that?" "I'm going to be married!" an- j nounced the bachelor, with infinite sheepishness. "Married, sir? You? Dear, dear! Then you'll be leaving mo again, 1 shouldn't wonder." "Not necessarily, Mrs. Hyde. 1 dare say you aud my future wife will get aloug very comfortably together." "Indeed, sir!" "For I'm going to marry—Patty." "Patty?" echoed Mrs. Hyde. "Yes, Patty!" "And how about tho twins?" de manded the amazed matron. "The twins, Mrs. Hyde, aro tho dearest little creatures iu the world." And, improbable as it may seem, Mr. Marvell really looked as if ho be lieved what he said! It was all true. He did marry Patty—aud he was proud of his pretty, energetic little wife, aud still more proud, strange to say, of the twins! "I wouldn't believe it unless I'd ha seen it with my own eyes," said Mrs. Hyde. "He as never could endure children afore! But I'm as pleased as Punch, for Patty's sake!" And Patty and her middle-aged husband were serenely happy to gether. Some New Palindromes. "Somebody," says The Star of Hope, the prison paper of Sing Sing, "has l>een amusing himself aud his 'pals' iu the prison with the following 'back ward readings,' or, rather readings that backward or forward are precise ly the same—that is, have all the let ters and nearly all the entire words; 'Name no one man.' Aud the other; 'Snug aud raw was I ero I saw war and guns.'" A Qulck-Witted Boy. "Want a situation as errand boy, do you? Well, can you tell me how far the moon is from the earth, eh?" "Well, guv'nor, I don't know; but I reckon it ain't near enough to inter fere with me running errands." He got the job.—The Metropolitan. AMERICAN SIGNAL GUNS. NOW HEARD EVERY NICHT ALL OVER THE EARTH. ! II a !'rnn In Porto lilco CotiM near, tlio Kveiiing Hun In M ant la Would Awaken Him Just Before II in Own Signal Gun Boomed. Webster's allusion to Great Britain j as "a power which has dotted over ! the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning i drum-beat, following the sun and I keeping company with the hours, cir cles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of : England" may not have been an orig j inal idea with him. Captain John Smith in some of his writings alludes to the Spanish soldier who brags that j the sun never sets on Spanish domin- I ions, but "ever shinethou onepart or other," while both Schiller and Wal ter Scott put similar ideas in the months of their Spanish characters. But our late war with the dons has stripped tho Spaniard of a large part of his braggadocio so that it no longer takes Old Sol a long time to traverse the dominions of Spain. But the decrease in time of the sun's traversing the dominion of the don re sulted in an increase in the time of its wandering over the domain of the l'nukee. Previously the first army gun fired to salute the rising of the sun was in Fort Preble, Maine, and the last at the Presidio, San Francisco. Now a dozen salutes to the snn are tired in advance of that at Fort Preble —tho guns at posts in Porto Rico; and a number after those at the Presidio —at Dyea, Honolulu and in the Philip pines. The custom of Cl ing these guns is observed in camps in the field as well as at posts and garrisons, because it is one of the institutions of the army commanded by the army regulations, and is as much a matter of law as the mustering in of troops or the rules of discipline. This institution of saluting the coining and going of the sun hns existed from time unremembered. It is tho practice not only in America but in the leading nations of the world. Our army regulations require that the reveille (morning) gun be fired at a time no earlier than 5.30 a. m, in sum mer nor 0.30 a. m. in winter and the evening gun at sunset. Local and not standard time is followed. The ceremony is in charge of the officer of the day who details a sergeant and two enlisted men to fire the gun. These sergeants generally go by their own watches and any available proprietary medicine almanac will do to determine the hour of sunset. There is, never theless a reasonable degree of regu larity and simultaneousness through out the country since these almanacs are made from the ephemera published by the naval observatory. It costs Uncle Sain to maintain this custom about $15,000 a year, about the same amount as it costs to tire a few thirteeu-iuch guns. Cheap grades of powder, costing about fifteen cents a pound, are used. These two signal shots each day have the effect of mili tary order to all the men at the post, garrison or camp. The evening gun is the concluding ceremony of the day and is tired with the last note of the bngle sounding the retreat, when the flag is lowered, no honors are shown to any one, and all sentinels understand that they are to challenge friend or foe until the morning gun ushers in the break of day. Even if the Presi dent or the commander-in-chief of the army were to appear after sunset a salute would not be fired in his honor. | The biggest guns used in giving these signals are the eight-inch rifles on Governor's Island, which are fired with great regularity and preciseness, and as their boom sounds throughout the vicinity of New York City and Brooklyn every vessel of whatever na ture in port has to immediately dis play its lights for the night. There are 144 military posts of Uncle Sam that are under these regu lations. The first shot fired at sunrise comes from the garrison on the island of Vieques, east of Porto Rico. In its westward journey the sun is saluted j almost in constant succession until | the shot at AguidiUa, on the extreme west coast of Porto ltico, is fired. Approximately seventeen minutes af ter this Porto Rican guu is sounded, the cannon at Fort Treble, in Portland harbot, Maine, booms. The succes sion continues in the United States until Fort Meyer, across tho Potomac River, is reached. Just as the Fort Meyer gun sounds, the Fifth Infantry at Santiago hears tho daily gnn. As the sun travels in the heavens simul taneous shots are fired in Cuba and the United States. After the Pinar del Rio shot is heard, the line of fire returns to tho mainland and moves westward through the various military posts scattered over our big country uutil it reaches the Presidio at San Francisco. Forty minutes after the Presidio's shot comes fire from Fort IVrangel, and twenty minutes still later the gnn at Dyea, Alaska, is heard. An hour after the Dyea gun the sun calls upon the gunner at Honolulu for a salute. And finally, seven hours and fifteen minutes elapse after the Presidio shot before the morning gun at Manilla is heard. While the American drumbeat does not keep company with the hours it does keep company with the sun. Be tween Manila, traveling westward, 1 and Vieques, Porto Rico, the distance is approximately 180 degrees. Heuee as tho rays of the snu fade on Manila they dispel the darkness on Porto Rico; or, if a person in Porto Rico could hear it, the evening gun at Ma- j nila would awaken him a minute or ' two before he heard his own morning gun.—The Pathfinder. There are nearly 2000 more miles of trolleys than there were in 1897. The total mileage of thi3 country is 15.672. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A French experimenter suggests that the X-ray furnishes a ready means to detect stony impurities in coal. Carbon is very transparent to the Roentgen rays,' while silica is opaque to them. Consequently the silicates, which form slag when coal is burned, can be seen like a skeleton when the shadow of the coal is pro jected upon a fluorescent screen. An artificial cork known as phello seno has recently been introduced in France, as I is sai i to answer all the purposes for whie i this substance is generally employe 1. It is analogous to celluloid, and is made of cork bark ground to a fine powder and then mixed with a solution of nitro-ceilu lose in acetone, forming a doughy mass which is placed in moulds. It is compressed and allowed to dry spontaneously. The new material is but slightly more combustible than cork, and contains from ten to twelve per cent, of nitrocellulose. The Erinak, built on the Tyne to break the ice and keep the harbor of Cronstadt open iuwiuter, encountered Hoes ten feet thick uenr the Island of Lescou, in the Baltic, and forced her way through them at a speed of two and a half miles an hour. Admiral Makaroff'.s ice-breaking steamer is, perhaps, the right means of getting to the polo. Nansen found the ice only ten feet thick, and a vessel plowing through ice ten or twelve feet thick might get so near the pole that sledge parties or men on "skis" or snow shoes might reach it from her as a base, even though she did not get there herself. A valuable product, especially for the color industry, is produced from the soot of the acetylene flames. When ! acetylene gas is burned with a srnok- j ing flame it produces three or four | times as great a quantity of soot as do mineral oils. It is very light in j weight, and exhibits an absolutely black color without a tinge of brown, I and bas none of the tarry admixtures or other substances that appear in ' lampblack. It is also very bulky, and is admirably adapted for use in India j ink, and the colors of fine inks for j lithographic work where a positive ' black is required. It is now being : manufactured in France by a patent- \ ed process by which almost absolute j purity of color and texture is obtained I at a comparatively small cost. Tho San Jose scale was first dis- : covered by Professor J. 11. Comstock, I near San Jose, Gal., in 1879. It has been found in various parts of the ' world, and, while the place of its or igin has not yet been ascertained, it is conjectured to bo Japan. Six years | ago it was discovered in the Eastern ! States, where it was introduced six years before with somo infected plum trees from California. These plums were brought over for tho purpose of obtaining an unproved fruit which should bo proof against the attacks of tho plum weevil, aud, strangely enough, this laudable object proved the means of inflicting a much worse pest on the Eastern States. The scale has now found its way into thirty three States, besides Canada aud Brit ish Columbia. There is probably no place where | the results of scientific medical treat- I ment are more marked than in India, | as the health officials of that country are constantly making nse of the most recent produots of bacteriological re search in their efforts to combat the various epidemics. The success of inoculation against the plague that has recently been takiugplace in Bom bay, has been most pronounced, and from the statistics that have been col lected it is quite possible to see the beneficial effect. In the town of Hugli 33,000 people were inoculated with the Halt'kine fluid; while 6000 re mained uuiuooulated. In oue week 371 deaths occurred among the unm odulated, while among those who had been treated by inoculation there were but forty-one. The plague always de creases with the coming of hot weath er, the decline being observed when | the thermometer verges on the nine ties. Tho 14 l<liuipi>iii£ of Johnny Johnson. The disappearance sixty years ago of three-year-old John Johnson, of Lower Biddeford, Me., has been re- ' called by tho Portland Press. The | little fellow was playing with his brothers and sisters one afternoon I when suddenly they missed him. All | efforts to find a clue to his where abouts were futile, aud finally nearly every one decided that ho had fallen into the river, though a few believed that he had beeu stolen. Thirty or forty years afterward a party of In dians camped in Biddeford, and a sis ter of the missing Johnson saw among theiu a man she believed to be her loug lost brothel. Her pareuts were also sure the man, who was called John Glossiau, was their child; but he him self did not believe, and the ludians could not or would not throw any light on tho subject. He bail married an Indian woman and again went away with them, but later he became con vinced that he was not one of them and came to his family. He now lives in Hollis ou a farm. Queer Bnsinens Combination!*. Some Chicago men carry ou at the same time two or more different lines of business. Sometimes these com binations are laughable. Over tho door of a store in Wells street is a sign which announces "Wholesale Popcorn aud School of Magic." In tho win dow of an office in Madison street is an announcement that within are to be had "Books on Love aud Poultry liaising." A South Side humorist has a placard in his basement window which reads: "Lunches Put Up Carpets Put Down."—Detroit Free Press. | OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUCHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Banishing the Bote Cheapening Ills Value—Hard to PT ise—Somo Satisfac tion, Anyhow—A Cheerful Soul—A Sure <!ure—A Natural Inference, lite. He used to bore me half to death, For, every single day, He'd oome 'round to my ofllce, And just stay, and stay, nnd stay, I couldn't seem to shake him, Though I gave most pointed hints. But I lent him half a dollar. And I haven't seen him since. Cheapening Ills Value. | Mrs. Y'oungwife—"'You are awful : dear to me, Harry." Harry—"Yea, but your habit of telling others about it'uiakes me feci I very cheap."—Richmond Dispatch. A Sure Cure. ' "There is n man who is always | looking for trouble." I "Well, it's easy enough to cure hiin of that habit." I "How?" "Get him put on the police force." Hard to Please. | "Mrs. Perkins said if we made her president she would resign from tho club." | "Well?" I "Then she resigned because she didn't get but one vote." —Chicage , Record. A Cheerful Soul. Creditor (determinedly) —"I shall call at your honse every week until yon pay this account, sir." j Debtor—(in the blandest of tones) J "Then, sir, there seems to be every probability of our acquaintanceship ripening into friendship."—Tit-Bits. Some Satisfaction, Anyhow. [ "Our Henry has been to school for two years," said his anxious mother, I "ami I don't see that he has learned anything of value." j "Nonsense!" replied the wise | father. "He thinks lie has, and what more do you expect nowadays?"— Life. Making Arrangement., "I want to get up a popular demon stration," said the Paris agitator. "When does monsieur desire it?" "To-morrow." I "I'm very sorry, but monsieur's ; rival has engaged the mob for to-wor j row. Rut day after to-morrow it will be disengaged." The U.tini Way. j School Visitor—"Wlfnt a sad, seri ous aud contemplative couuteuauco that young genius has who stands at the head of the class!" Pedagogue "Yes; you see the dunoe, who stands at the foot, won all his marbles away from bim during recess."—Puck. Report *™ £^e Veal is very firm. It ltfttere<l Not. Mistress (to cook) —"Your name, Mary, and my daughter's being the same, makes matters somewhat con fusing. Now, how do you like, say, the name of Bridget?" Cook—"Sliure, mum, it's not me that's particular. I'm willing to call the young lady anything you like."— Tit-Bits. Not Home to UIIIM. "Is your father at home?" asked the caller. "What is your name, please?" in quired the little girl. "Just tell him it is his old friend, Bill." "Then I reckon he ain't at homo. I heard him tell mamma if any bill came he wasn't at home." Now She Jiiftt (lute* Him. Mrs. Younglove (pouting) "George, you have been treating me just as if I were a child. Why do you do it?" Mr. Younglove—"l don't know. I must havo been thinking of something else. There surely is no reason why I should treat you in that way."—■ Chicago Times-Herahl. A Feast For 111. Pet. • Willio was running around the House with a flannel shirt in his bauds, peering into closets and looking under bedß and opening bureau drawers. "What on earth are you doing with that shirt, Willie?" asked his mother. "I'm lookin' for a pet moth ol mine," he replied. "I'm goin' to give lym this shirt for breakfast."—Har per's Bazar. The Joke That Failed. "Haw, haw, haw," laughed the Englishman. "Funniest joke I ever heard." "What is it?" asked the American. "Why, n man got up oue morning and couldn't find his alarm clook, so he asked his wife what had become of it, and she said it had disappeared at 6 o'clock." "I don't see anything so very funny about that." "Don't you? Why—why—neithor do I now. Thought it was awful funny when I heard it, too. I . Oh, yes, now I kuow. She said it went oa at 6 o'clock. Haw, haw, haw!" Chicago Post. There were 249,145 marriages in England and Wales last year, moro than in an; year since 187a. gOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOOGOOOOOCQ IFARM TOPICS OOOOGOOOOQOOOOQOOQQOGOOGGO Washing Mtlk Pall.. It is always important to wash milk pails as soon as possible after their contents are emptied. If left to stand two ot three hours, some of the milk dries on the wooden pail, and then the more hot water is put ou it the closer it stioks. Always wash milk pails first with cold water to remove the particles of milk, and then scald with hot water to destroy auy germs that may remain. Keep Young Hog. Growing. There is an impression among farmers that hog 3 in summer at pas ture can get enough with the swill from the house and what they cau get in the fields. This was all right, so long as skim-milk, one of the best foods for growth, was part of the swill, and uneaten refuse from the ta ble was also thrown in. But in many places the skimmed milk is now sold in some form, while a better use for table refuse is found in giving it to the poultry. So the pig is starved iu summer, which is the time he ought to grow the fastest, aud is the poorest preparation for the heavy coru feed ing that will begiu in September and continue until tho pig is turned over to the bncher. A half-starved animal loses the power of digesting hearty food, for the stomach, like every other organ of the body, needs to have something to do to keep it in good health and strength. Artichokes For Pigs. Occasionally some one writes en thusiastically in favor of artichokes for swine, but the great majority of swine breeders and feeders do not seem to be fascinated with this valuable tuber. The fear of difficulty iu getting rid of them, after they are once iu the ground, is one cause of this indifference. As a matter of fact there is little danger of artichokes remaining in the ground, if hogs have free access to the field. They will not leave any to speak of. It is not probable that artichokes are quite all that some writers would have us believe, but nevertheless, if a swine feeder once tries them, ho will not be apt to give them up. They seemjto be just suited to tho hog's taste aud sys tem, are conducive to the health of the animal, and iu food value, as a part of the ration, are worthy of high esteem. If pigs are allowed to run on arti chokes, and also fed grain, tho arti chokes will save about two pounds of grain for each pound of gain in live weight. They are an easy, economi cal crop to grow. Plant them in rows three feet apart, cultivate a few times, and then let them and tho hogs have it out together.—The Epitomost. Sheep T.lke Wild Pasture. From my experience in sheep rais ing, i have come to the conclusion that the moro access (locks have to the woodlands tho better they will thrive, while the more they are confined in narrow pastures where the wild growths have been exterminated, the more un profitable they become. Y'earr ago in this soction when a larger area of tho lands was iu forests than at the pres ent time, our sheep raisers let their flocks run in the woods the year round, and they did much better than they do of later years. There is something peouliar to wild lands that is necessary to the growth and a healthy condition of the sheep. They always seek the higher grounds for repose. Confine them in a field and if you notice, you will invariably lee them lying 011 the highest point at night. We are led to believe that there is an instinct that prompts them to do this. If they be left to range nt will, Ihey find every nook and corner that ,s classed as "commons," and will yave a clean, thrifty appearance,while I- they be confined in anything like ;'ioso quarters, they become diseased, iake on a bad appearance, and a de crease of numbers is the ultimate re —alt.—Frank Monroe Beverly,in Farm, Field and Fireside. Kftect of Fat on Yield of Cheese. The result of au experiment made by J. W. Decker, the instructor in cheese making at the Wisconsin dairy school, may surprise many. With six samples of milk, caoh weighing 200 pounds, ranging iu butter fat from nothing to five per cent, cheese was made with the result that the cheese made one per cent, butter fat milk was one-third larger than the one made from the milk containing no butter fat. That made from two per cent, milk was still larger and so ou to the four cent, which cheese was fully twice as large as that having no butter fat. The cheese from five per eont. milk was a little larger than the four per oent. and tho quality of tho cheese improved with the additional fat in propoition to the increase in size. This seems to prove that the same care should be exercised in taking milk for cheese as for bntter. Milk with a good supply of butter fat is as essential to the making of good quan tity of okeese as for making a good quantity of butter, and still more es sential in its bearings on quality. Milk with little butter fat will make good butter, but it will make but little of it, whereas milk with little butter fat will not yield heavily in cheese undor any conditions, and it loses in qualtity also. This experiment shows pretty clearly why we are obliged to eat so much poor cheese or not any at all. We are eating cheese with but little natuial bntter fat in it, and of this the consumer has a right to complain. An other important feature of the experi ment is that the fat must be native to tho milk and not added, in order to get the results here mentioned. New England Homestead. Thirty years ago there were only two dozen explosive compounds known to oLemists; now there are over lOUO.
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